Woodward Hiram. The Art and Architecture of Thailand

2nd edition. — Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. — 395 p. — (Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 3. South-East Asia. Volume 14). — ISBN: 90-04-14440-4.Written sources on Thai history are scarce. It took Hiram Woodward many years of painstaking archaeological and art-historical research to finally piece together this first ever comprehensive survey work on the art and architecture of Thailand from the earliest times until the establishment of the Thai-speaking kingdoms.
The book, organized geographically and chronologically, covers four eras: the prehistoric period; the period characterized by the culture of the kingdom of Dvaravati; the centuries of Khmer dominance; and, as classical Khmer civilization waned, the period of the struggle for identity.
A systematic and elucidating history of pre-fourteenth-century Thailand in a volume indispensable to historians of art, religion, politics, and society.Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Maps, Figures, and Plates
The Geographic, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Setting
The First Millennium A. D.
The Cambodian Expansion
Creating a New Order
Inscriptions Cited